New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-03
BILLIARDS WITH HIS NOSE.
A CHAMPION PLAYER In BROOKLYN.
MAKING CARRoMs AND CUSHION SHOTS wITHoU,
UsIN0 CUE OR FlNGEEA


MAKING CARTONS AND CUSHION SHOTS WITHOUT
USING CUE OR FlNGEns
"Then you never really heard Of o mans playing
billiards with bis noseir drawled q mild hammered
gray haired expert from q seat In quiet corner Of
william Sections big billiard room in Broadway. 1t
ism. often that tho grave old takes his eyes of tho
game at the nearest table, but his scraps Of coaching
were lost that night the two young men in dress
coats who pounding tho balls around heltcr-
SHELTER. So no turned alphabetically to another
youth who had Just taken seat beside him and was
venting his feelings like this:
"Humph; think could discount either Of them
with ono arm tied behind my back. l could beat
EN- both with my nose, for that matter, though
never beard Of anybody's malilng cue Of that"
"That's whero you're away behind young man,"
tho expert drawled again. "But seein' as you know
bad billiards when you 'em, III Just tell you
about game l last winter like that"
Tho tasng man smiled incrcduIously. He thought
at tho worst 1T was going to be joke we'll
known billiard player, perhaps on the renowned
Sexton himself.
"Wel," said tho old man, gathering himself to-
gether you know what finger billiards arc, to start
With Yank Adams used to play 'em all around
and people thought they were wonder for a while
Now anybody can play 'em aud beat tho cue every
timc' ~ VIII DO tho Same way with those bill
lards I'm going to tell you about before long.
i
brooklyn ono night lookin' at Maurice do up some
spry young chaps that thought they knew all about
tho game. Only left and it was gettin' to-
ward midnight when two big fellows that looked like
rouhoors' only not so bad as that, came in, and
behind them short, small man with a broad red
TACO and bioomn' big shiny nose. When Maurice
stopped tho little men got and said he'd play
anybody In tho house Tho spry young fellow went
az him for small stake and won. Then he tried
u bigger won
hreo-ball game and the young fellow had only five
TO go on tho third string, the shiny nosed man
throw down his stick and said:
IL do shcntlemans hav' no Objcckshuns I win
play mo alretty NIT mino nose.'
"And he put his nose down sidewise against the
QUO Dal' squnted carefully, pushed and made
long, hard caro- Then picking the cue ball I'D,
lks Adams used to do, he placed it again. aimed
shos and made cushion. He didn't miss but once
either until he had tho string away out Maurice
was 30 knocked out that he forgot to collect the tariff
On ,ho taDle' The spry young man had lost al no
had L-ado and moro too He quit right of that
hishr. The two big Misunderstanding fellows gathered
In their friend, whose was bleeding little and
plotted him down and out. They said it was little
Joke OF his when he was on a larl never saw
him after that. But that nose games been running
In my head ever since-the sort Of game they'll play
in tho next century perhaps"
An, yes added the young admiringly,
and what beautiful players Of the chosen tribe
will make.p
over at Maurice Da.y's the next afternoon one Of
tho ma kers could remember family that some such
extraordinary match had taken place.
You Josh, l guess Kind of big-nosed
fellow that camc in here night But he played
with cue when L saw him. Yes, 60 down on
lulton-ave. and you'n acrost him in one of the
bUtels'
Josh wasn't at any Of the hotels, however. Tho
hotels. OK course. were mere beer shops with bill
hld room attachment. But o waiter at one OF
them had just seen him go out
"Oh, yah, der funny man, wat play de bcelyard
init his nose Jus lie play her often init
himself. Ito der kleino shtick nit dn shtling auf
his nosei oh, YAH 1 have him gesehen orfen.p
Josh himself denied this last part Of the big
Germans story when he cOlared ut last under
"a street awning near the City Hat
"Meli, yes, mag DO 1 did and maybe l didn't play
that game up at Mr.. Days. And 1t may be Just
Ioko some OK my friends is playing on you. But
never used any littio cue, If played at ali. This
cues good enough for me- and the great bllliaruisu
tapped his biz branching, peach-blow iondly.
heh yes, play the same" he went on. aim
g.vin you tho straight tip now young feuer. Ny
Lamo Is Josh Myers, and 1 count with my
nose faster than any amateur with his cue, and
my friends has got 800 TO say 1 In any hal IN
brooASn. This Is the way | Eearnt it. You see 1
ued 10 keep a bIliard taDle fore l went into the
tOUacc0 business, whds A III INTO Anu uay %,
oid fIenchnian ciInO along ana lie hircd the
Alnd VI quiC ana no play ed of there with his nose
And 1 seen at inst ami thought 1t All NONSENSE.
Bnt alter the OH man went away l SAID my self
that there must bo souethln into II, s | trieI
once ana kept ryin TIL got the hang. IL made
my nose bleed at nrst some AID the tip oil it and
sore. but IT'S al hardened up now and tell you |
done need chalk
"Mel you've seen finger billiards. haven't you
It's tho same game place my ball the
object bali and then hit with my TO carrOm or
cushion for tho other | can't make draw shots. Of
course And the tol ows arO pntty hard But the
ordinary Engllshe.s arc nothin. l mako
average Of ten easy on thIceban game, and know
that'll knock almost any Eve got a hacker
o. two. Anybody that thinks he can lick me that
I'm playing fake Just let him on
Tho great billiarllst would give exhibition
however Lko other redOubtablc champions,
he ls saving his metuo until the stakes high